News
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Invited lecture at the Cargèse summer school Assembling Life: Synthetic Cells, Dynamic Matter & Multicellularity (19–31 July 2027), in the session Single-cell collective behavior: Collective behaviour arising from single-cell hydrodynamics.
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Picture of the month on basilisk.fr. The work of Louise Gally, a former student, is the picture of the month on the Basilisk front page: selective frequency damping stabilising a von Kármán vortex street — the SFD module she wrote during her internship now serves the stability tools of the group. Well done, Louise!
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Visiting Julien Lemetayer and colleagues at IMFT (Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse).
IMFT's wind tunnel!
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Talk at JMC 2026, the Journées de la Matière Condensée (SFP), in Toulouse — Sink or swim: how microhydrodynamics drives bioconvection patterns — on bioconvection of micro-algae over a structured bottom: how the plumes of a swimming Chlamydomonas suspension respond to a zigzag bathymetry, confronting 3D continuum simulations with the experiments of Hélène de Maleprade, with whom I work on this at ∂'Alembert — and why the pattern selection looks like an instability. See Bioconvection.
Gala evening of the JMC 2026, Toulouse, 29 October 2026 — with Adrien Bussonnière and Axel Huerre (MSC, Université Paris Cité). -
Two numerical-modelling internships (M1/M2) open for spring 2027, on bioconvection and on TARAS — see Open positions.
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Visited S. Picella at EPFL, Lausanne. Many thanks for the warm welcome and the lab tour.
EPFL, August 2026 — a wall of ski bindings, the kind of collection only a mechanics lab would keep. -
Invited talk at the Cercle Pierre de Jumièges of the Société des ingénieurs Arts & Métiers, Paris — Formes futures : ce que la nature révèle à l'ingénieur: gas lubrication for maritime transport, alongside fellow laureates of the Prix Pierre Bézier.
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Joined the GDR MePhy (Mécanique et Physique des systèmes complexes) and attended the MePhy meeting in Carry-le-Rouet.
MePhy meeting, Carry-le-Rouet, May 2026. -
New paper with M. Givaudan and H. de Maleprade: Roll formation in a bio-active fluid, Comptes Rendus. Physique.
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Malo Walmetz (Arts et Métiers) starts his M2 internship on superhydrophobic surfaces in Basilisk, co-supervised with Jean-Christophe Robinet (DynFluid) — his sandbox.
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Pier Giuseppe Ledda (University of Cagliari) was an invited professor at ∂'Alembert, 1–15 February 2026, funded by a BRIDGE grant from Sorbonne Université. We worked on the modelling of complex interfaces in biological systems.
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Ambre Palotai (M2 Fluid Mechanics, Sorbonne Université / École Polytechnique) joins for a research internship on the hydrodynamic interactions between microswimmers — her sandbox.
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Paper with D. Fabre and F. Plouraboué on ionic wind from DC-corona discharges, AIAA Journal.
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Joined Sorbonne Université as Maître de Conférences, Institut ∂'Alembert.